Kirsty over at kootoyoo transformed her old Cosina CT-2 into a neat desk lamp that emits light from inside the lens. The legs on the tripod can be adjusted, so it can be used as a floor lamp as well. It'd be awesome if she could make it so adjusting the aperture on the lens would change the brightness of the light. Kirsty is currently writing a tutorial that'll teach you how to make your own -- it'll go on sale starting next week.
After moving into their new dorm room, Caleb Ungewitter and his roommate Kyle decided that their walls looked too empty, so they decided to decorate it with a photo. Not just any photo, mind you, but a gigantic do-it-yourself print of a beautiful city skyline. Using a free program called The Rasterbator, they converted the photograph into 152 separate frames, which they printed out themselves and attached to the wall in a grid.
A huge photo scandal erupted over in Sweden this past weekend after a well-known and award-winning wildlife photographer admitted to faking some of his photographs. Terje Helleso -- a nature photographer who was named Nature Photographer of the Year by the Swedish Environmental Protection Agency in 2010 -- was discovered to have published multiple images in which stock photographs of hard-to-find animals were Photoshopped into nature scenes.
Photographer Eric Schwabel was trying to think of a creative way to photograph the people at Burning Man, and ended up making a portable photo studio called the "Human Light Suit" for lighting portraits in the desert. It's like the photography version of a one-man band!
Here's some good news for people who find memory card readers and data cables a hassle -- Toshiba has unveiled a new "FlashAir" SDHC memory card with built-in wireless LAN functionality. It's similar to Eye-Fi's offerings, but Toshiba's cards will offer something that Eye-Fi's don't: two-way transfer. This means they can not only send photos wirelessly, but receive photos as well -- perfect for quickly exchanging photos on the go with a friend's camera! You'll be able to purchase the cards …
Sometimes pricing your services creatively can be a good marketing tactic. Other times, as in the case of this photographer, it can be quite the opposite.
